Sanitary lining for garbage cans



J. Q. HORNE ET AL SANITARY LINING FOR GARBAGE CANS March 25 1924.

Filed Aug. 15. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 WWW J. Q. HORNE ET AL SANITARY LINING FOR GARBAGE CANS March 25, 1924; 1,488,203

Filed Aug. 15. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. 25, 1 924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES Q. HORNE, OI LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA, AND GORDON H. REIFSNIDER, F LARCHMONT, AND WILLIAM A. ROWLEY, OF MAMARONECK, NEW YORK.

SANITARY LININ'G FOR GARBAGE CANS.

Application filedAugust 1922. Serial No. 582,077.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that JAMES Q. HORNE, GOR- DON H. REIFSNIDER, WILLIAM A. ROWLEY, citizens of the United States of America, 6 residing at, J. Q. HORNE, Lock Haven, Pa; G. H. REIFsNmER, Larchmont, N. Y.; W. A. ROWLEY, Mamaroneck, ,N. Y., in the county of Clinton (Pa), Westchester (N. Y.), and State of (Pennsylvania), (New 10 York), have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Linings for.

Garbage Cans, of

specification.

This invention relates to certain new and 16 useful improvements irrhygienic and sanitary linings for garbage cans or pails.

Garbage cans, as at present used, consist of a container of some sort, preferably metal with handles on its sides, or a bail by which 20 it can be moved from place to place, and a top usually of the same material as the body,

which'fits down tightly over the upper edge of the container andprevents the escape of the stench of the malodorous refuse. With this refuse which for the most part, as a rule, is of rather dry consistency, there is frequently mixed considerable matter which is only partially dry such as the viscera of animals, the rinds of fruit and sometimes 30 dirty liquid, and these naturally sink to the bottom of the can which sooner or later rusts into holes.

Further, the garbage resting against the bottom and sides of the can makes the con- '5 tainer exceedingly foul. In order to avoid this, at least to some extent, it has become ahabit with a good many persons to take a piece of wrapping paper or a discarded newspaper and put it into the bottom of the 40 container and around the lower adjacent which the following is a sides into which they dump the garbage,-

and this keeps the can somewhat more cleanly than when suchmethod is not pursued; newspapers, however, are made of rather a poor quality of paper which soon absorbs the filthy liquid and resting against the bottom part of the container, soon ru'sts itout.

One of the objects of our invention,

vide a lining such as above described with two or more tabs at its upper edge by which the lining with its contents of garbage may be easily lifted out and -disposed of.

. A further object of our invention is to so crease that part of the lining which comes into contact with thebottom and sides of the can as to make it easily adjustable when it -is inserted therein.

A still further object of our invention is to make this lining for the can of a single piece of material of such shape and so shaped that it may be folded up into a flat rectangular parcel of so small a size that a number may be bound up into a single bundle or package and sold, as for instance, by the dozen.

With these and other objects in view which may be incident to our improvements, the invention consists in the parts and combinations to be hereinafter set forth and claimed, with the understanding that the several necessary elements comprising our invention may be varied in construction, proportions and arrangement, without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claims. a

In' order to make our invention more clearly understood, we have shown in the accompanying drawings means for carrying the same into practical effect without limiting the improvements in their useful applications to the particular constructions,

which for the'purpose of explanation, have been made the sub ect of illustration.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a garbage can. with its top removed and one side partly broken away so as to show the lining 1n place;

Figure 2 is a plan view of our lining as it appears when unfolded and stretched out Flgure 3 is a plan view of our ready to be packed into a bundle for market;

Figure 4 is a view looking from above down into the garbage, showing the lining as it would appear ready for use, the can not being shown;

Figure 5 is a view showing one-half of an unfolded lining with, a tab on each 00- tagonal edge instead of on each alternate octagonal edge as'shown in Fig. 2;

Figure 6 is a detail view showing the lining as it appears when the first folds are opened, and

Figure 7 is a detail view showing a dozen of the linings packed in one bundle or package ready for sale by the retail trade.

The numeral 1 represents a garbage can of the usual or any approved construction, the one.shown being made of galvanized iron and of a cylindrical formation circular in cross-section. It comprises a bottom 2 and sides 3, the latter being corrugated so as to make the structure more rigid and less likely to be indent-ed by the rather rough handling which-receptacles of this kind are likely to receive.

The numeral 4 represents a sheet of paper or cardboard, waxed, oiled or otherwise chemically treated or prepared, with the express objectin view of making it strongly resistent to liquid penetration. The sheet is then cut in the shape of an -octagon and properly creased by any suitable means, as shown in Fig. 2. As will be seen from an inspection of the design shown in this figure, each octagonal edge forms the base of a rectangle 5, and right angle triangles 6 and 7, one on each side thereof, whose apices 8 and 9 respectively point toward the center 10 of the octagon. The top 11 of each rectangle forms the base of a triangle whose apex is the center of an interior octagon 12 and of the exterior octagon circumscribed thereabout. It is to be observed that the lining is cut a trifle smaller in height and width than the can in which it is intended to be placed.

The manner of creasing the octagonal sheet of paper so as to enable it to be reduced to a small parcel as desired by the trade is to crease the sheet first along the line 15-15; second, to crease said sheet along the line 16-16; thirdly, to crease the said sheet along the line 17-17. The original sheet of paper is then folded along the several creases and is reduced to the size of a triangular wad of paper described by the lines 15-10-17. The tip 1810-19 of this trian le is then turned over toward the base of the triangle, (see Fig. 6) and the sides 151820, and 21-1917 folded to wards the triangular sides of said tip, and the parcel presents the appearance seen in Fig. 3.,

t will be noticed that each alternate outer edge of the original octagon sheet is provided with a tab 25 by which the lining may be grasped and the edges drawn inwardly toward the center when it is desired to lift the lining with the refuse therein from the can and to install a new lining. These tabs have been'found very helpful in drawing together the sides of the bundle just prior to removal. They may be made integral with the sheet, or pasted on afterwards and their number may be decreased or diminished, as desired by the trade. Further, they may be turned in upon the sheet when the several folds are made, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, or stick outward from the parcel as seen in Fig. 6.

The manner for using the lining is as follows: Open the parcel and spread it out to its full extent over the container to be lined and press the interior octa onal portion thereof towards the be tom of the can with agentle movement outwardly :from the center in an endeavor-to smooth out the creases where the sheet has been folded. Upon placing the garbage within the lining, the

latter will tend to spread the lining against the walls of the can.

\Vhile we have shown and described the preferred embodiment of our invention, we wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details of construction herein set forth, by way of illustration, as it is apparent that many changes and variations may be made therein, by those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirt of the invention, or exceeding the scope of the appended claims.

We claim- 1. As an article of manufacture, a removable sanitary lining for garbage cans comprising a sheet of paper of the shape of a regular polygon so folded and refolded upon itself as to produce a flat rectangle, which when unfolded by reason of the creases made by the folds, is easily positioned in a cylindrical can of the size for which said lining is made.

2. As an article of manufacture, a removable sanitary lining for garbage cans com prising a polygonal sheet of paper so folded and refolded upon itself as to form a flat triangle,the sides of which are then folded toward and partially upon one another, and the apex of which is folded Within the V-shaped space between the sides so as to make the sheet thus folded a flat rectan le, and which sheet of paperwhen 'unfol ed, by reason of the creases made by the folds is easily positioned in a cylindrical can of the size for which said lining is made.

3. As an article of manufacture, a removable sanitary lining for garbage cans comprising a olygonal sheet of paper so folded and refol ed upon itself as to form a flat triangle, which triangle is folded upon itself so as to form a triangle of a reduced size, the sides of which are then folded toward and partiall upon one another, and the apex of whic is folded within the V-shaped space between the sides so as to make the s eet thus folded a flat rectangle, and which sheet when unfolded is by reason of the creases-made therein by the folds, easily positioned in a cylindrical garbage can of the size for which such lining is made.

4. As an article of manufacture, a removable sanitary lining for arbage cans comrising an octagonal s eet of paper so olded and refolded upon itself as to form 5 a flat triangle, the sides of which are then JAMES Q. HORNE. GORDON H. REIFSNIDER. WILLIAM A. ROWLEY. 

